The Chicken or the egg

Sam has been enthralled with his class pets...chickens the class watched hatch. They really are four cute balls of fur (or down I guess is a better way to put it.) Sam takes us in for daily updates on how the chicks have changed. His little mind is full of new chicken questions. Why are their nails so long? Will the roosters fight? How do you know if the egg will turn into a rooster or a hen?

Do you anticipate the next big question?

How did the egg get into the mommy chicken? His teacher explained that the roosters and the hen spent some time together to make an egg. She warned me that more questions were sure to follow. But who can really anticipate the mind of a five year old...or at least our five year old!

We were driving home from school and I told Sam that his Papa had lots of chickens when he lived on a farm. Sam immediately wanted to call dad. Sam jumped right into the main topic for the call.

"You had chickens? How many? How many roosters? How many hens? Did the roosters fight? Hey wait a minute...if you only had two roosters and that many hens how did you get eggs? No, Papa my teacher says that it takes one daddy chicken AND one mommy chicken to make an egg. That is too many hens. Yeah, mom is right here....Mom, Papa wants to talk to you."

Growing up fast

Before I know it Sam will be bringing home a girlfriend and shaving for real...until then a foam paintbrush is enough for me to deal with!